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n: EISENHOWER -th*1VISITS SCENEHtINVASIONpi$2elCHERBOURG, France (API -!315 j Former President Iwight I). Ei-jto senhower Monday returned to!^Normandv—-19 vears and 2 monthI*t-nsnare*vif(1after D-day, and said this timehe would like to see a few tourist sites.Eisenhower i* making a one-hour television film on his D-daymemories The film is to be televised June 4, 1964, two days before the 2lt;th anniversary of the Allied debarkation\i-I«Eisenhower. hi? wife. Mamie, and mm. John, arrived aboard a passenger .ship. Ninteen yearsago, on Elsenhower’s first visitto the port, it had just been capture! by American forces.It was a rather sorry looking mess then,” Eisenhower said at a dockside news conference The harbor was so badly damaged by bombs and German demolition that the AHiec never madeuse of if2TOURIST CITYIn addition to visiting OmahaBeach and other battle scenes. Eisenhower said he would like tovisit the glittering tourist city ofDeauville ami other spots whichhe never got to see during the war or on later visitsuY\ 11'Cnrollndi0wirCwanftsicS♦ •4oHis most vivid memory of DtlIdoDay. he said, was the visit to his jy troops the night they left to cross the channelThere was never any doubt in41 his mind that the invasion would11| ie a success, he said, although I there were doubts about Omaha 1 Beach on the first day.vVt! ftmm-Eisenhower and his party were given a champagne reception byrh4local officials before driving in-* j land to Caen where work is tostart on tIk? film.Alert and smiling. Eisenhower was cheered by several hundred vacationing school children as his- limousine left with a motorcycleescort.c-He followed the Road of Lib-oration which his advancing armies took straight into Germany. Most of the scars of the invasion has been erased by new construction.At Sainte Mere Eglise, his car slow ml dow n to see the churchfrom whose steeple an American paratrooper dangled on D-Day morning.Eisenhower plans to return to New York by ship Saturday.
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Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Tue, Aug 06, 1963
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